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Title: Peaceful Education
Galina Melnikova
School-gymnasium #10, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan
E-mail: sc10@ukg.kz
Language level of students: Intermediate
Age group: 14-15
Time: 90 min
Skills / aspects focus: speaking, reading, writing
Grammar: Intermediate level.
Resources and materials: a large piece of paper A3, markers, a questionnaire for every student, a “Wheel of Peace” for each group of 4-5 students, large photos representing six groups of people working together in harmony (G = global, N =national, C = community, F = family, FR = friends, and P = personal). Smaller photos can be enlarged on a photocopier. If this is not possible, reproduce the photos for each student.
Credit published materials: R.Gomes. Council of Europe 2002
Pre-activity
- Ask each member of the class to think of several words that they would associate with "peace". Ask them to write the words on a note card, which they keep.
- Ask students to share their words with the class and to give reasons why they chose the words. Record the words and reasons on the board during the discussion. Transfer the words and reasons to large chart paper and post the chart in the classroom for reference during the lesson in this chapter and the following chapters. The student created word chart provides a personal class reference as new ideas about peace are introduced in later lessons. Find out if they like fighting, struggling, arguing, falling-out, slanning-match.
By examining a series of photos depicting scenes of people working together to achieve harmony and understanding, students can establish a core vocabulary and shared concepts, which will be the basis for discussing peace. Using the photo series as the basis for discussions on the topic of peace, the teacher helps organize the information by using "webs" to introduce the concepts and "class word lists" to record key words and phrases. Dictionary and word-building activities engage students in working with the new concepts and lexicon. Learner notebooks will help students to record and organize the words and phrases for later use in their personal journals.
The teacher uses background information to start the discussion. (Attachment 1). You can pre-teach vocabulary (Attachments 2,3).
Activity
- Divide students into 2-3 groups of 4-5. Give “The Wheel of Peace” to each group (attachment 4). The Wheel of Peace has already had three parts marked: your inside peace; external peace, and environmental peace. To have the Wheel of Peace filled, the students find 21 words of gospel truth, each of which symbolizes 21 states/types of peace. Students will “find" these words working with sayings, puzzles and quotations (attachment 5).
- Students get stripes of quotations and sayings with gaps. Filling the gaps students get the target word defining “peace”.
- One student puts the words on the big-size version of “the Wheel of Peace” at the blackboard.
- Students work in small groups discussing the following questions:
- Is it possible to live in war? How is it possible to get used to living in constant conflicts?
- What is meant by the phrase “peaceful community”?
- Does peace exist in economical, social, or cultural life?
- What can people do to feel peace? ( wisdom, tolerance, happiness, health)
- Can knowledge and awareness of the present state of the world help find the harmony with nature?
- Does religion help find internal peace?
- Presentation of the group discussion. Students give a short resume of their discussion, mark the most controversial/simple questions.
Post-Activity
Students make recommendations to stop violence among people.
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